En I Me
Benefit Concert & Reception

May 3, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
RTFP Building – University Theatre

$10 for adults and $5 for students

Donations accepted

The dance work, “En I Me,” choreographed by UNT Professor Shelley Cushman, has been selected for presentation at The National Dance Festival.  Cushman’s dance work is performed by 12 UNT dancers.  This year’s festival will be held in New York City at Columbia University’s Miller Theater, June 4-6.  The National Festival showcases dances selected by the adjudicators from each of the regional conferences based on their outstanding artistic excellence and merit.
The primary objective of the National Festival is to highlight, on the national level, the outstanding quality of choreography and performance that is being created on university campuses.  While at the festival, dance students and faculty will engage in three days of performances, workshops, panels, and master classes taught by instructors from around the country.

To assist in sending UNT dancers to NYC, the Department of Dance & Theatre will be sponsoring a benefit matinee performance on Saturday, May 3, 2:30 p.m. in the University Theatre, located on the corner of Welch and Chestnut Streets.  Featured works include Cushman’s “En I Me,” as well as several student-choreographed dances.  Following the dance performance, the Department will host a festive “Meet the Dancers” reception in the theatre lobby.  Dance alums will be performing another Cushman dance work during the reception while local musicians play.  The dance students will also be selling T-shirts specifically designed for the event and signed posters.

 

SLASHER          
by Allison Moore
October 12, 13, 18, 19, & 20 @ 8:00 pm
October 14 & 21 @ 2:30 pm
Studio Theatre
Guest Director Tim J. Johnson

Sheena, a 21-year-old coed, juggles school and
work, all while caring for her 15-year old sister and
a malingering mother who claims to have
chronic fatigue.  When she’s cast as the
“last girl” in a slasher flick, Sheena thinks it’s
the big break she’s been waiting for.  She soon
discovers that her life and her movie have a
whole lot in common. Be careful what you
ask for…SLASHER is a dark comedy that will
have you laughing and gasping all at once.

Antigone          
by Sophocles, translation by Nicholas Rudall
November 9, 10, 15, 16, & 17 @ 8:00 pm
November 11 & 18 @ 2:30 pm
University Theatre
Directed by Andrew B. Harris

Southwest Premiere.  Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, is dead.  Now, his young daughter Antigone has to confront her uncle, Creon, the new ruler, for he has forbidden the burial of her beloved brother as an enemy of the state. Together, daughter and uncle, enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, priestess and king.  In Nicholas Rudall’s accessible translation of Sophocles’ tragedy, we probe the role of the divine and the extent to which men and women create their own destiny.

Faculty Dance Concert          
February 15 & 16 @ 8:00 pm
February 17 @ 2:30 pm
University Theatre
Artistic Director Mary Lynn Babcock

Featuring choreography by UNT dance faculty, guest choreographers, and a selected student choreographer. 

Wait Until Dark          
by Frederick Knott
February 29 & March 1 @ 8:00 pm
March 2 @ 2:30 pm
Studio Theatre
Lab Series Production directed by theatre student Christopher Rogers

Sam Hendrix was persuaded by a strange woman to transport a mysterious doll across the Canadian border, not knowing several grams of heroin were sewn inside. Unexpectedly the woman is murdered. A sinister con man and two ex-convicts trace the doll to the apartment of Sam and his blind wife, Susy where they try to convince Susy the police have implicated Sam in the woman's murder and the doll is key to his innocence. When she refuses, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensue where her survival waits in the dark. 

Landscape of the Body          
by John Guare
April 4, 5, 10, 11, & 12 @ 8:00 pm
April 6 & 13 @ 2:30 pm
University Theatre
Guest Director Susan Sargeant

Moving back and forth in time, the action reveals the American Dream gone awry. A boy is found dead, and his mother is suspect. The boy's mother has come to New York to persuade her sister to come back to their home in Maine; the sister is killed in a bizarre accident and her sibling slips into her persona, moving into her apartment and taking over her job; while her son becomes involved in the ugly street life of Greenwich Village. The strands are drawn together into a shattering climax—a forceful, moving illumination of lives first betrayed and then destroyed.

New Choreographers Concert          
April 25 & 26 @ 8:00 pm
April 27 @ 2:30 pm
University Theatre
Artistic Director Timothy Wilson

New dance works created by senior dance students as part of their advanced choreography class.

Summer Arts Festival          
July - August

Comprehensive study and experience in theoretical and practical components of theatre / dance in performance, design, and technical preparation. UNT faculty and guest artist classes, workshops, performances, and field trips culminating in produced works for public performance.

Box Office hours:          
Monday-Friday 1:00-5:00 pm when Fall and Spring classes are in session and 1 hour prior to each performance
940-565-2428
University Theatre Lobby, RTVF & Performing Arts Building (room 104)

Tickets for SLASHER, Antigone, Landscape of the Body, and Faculty Dance Concert:
$7.50 Students, Seniors, UNT Faculty/Staff
$10 Adults

Tickets for Wait Until Dark, New Choreographers Concert:
$5 

There is a No Late Seating policy for productions performing in the Studio Theatre.

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